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Special interest groups and lobbying strategies in midwifery regulation

The objective of this work is to identify three special interest groups and to discuss the agenda of each special interest group including economic and political incentives including socioeconomic biases and ethical dilemmas and to discuss whether or not each group is a private interest group or…

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The role of time in information assurance development

The society at large is on the verge of a new era. This new era is the information age which is marked with a major paradigm shift in the area of information assurance. Information assurance has three main attributes: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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Music's role in cultural identity and social movements in America

Music is one of the most common human activities and is evident throughout human cultures everywhere on earth. It has a long history of cultural and religious significance and still plays a fundamental role in modern social life and religious worship as well.

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Covert discrimination in modern American employment practices

In theory, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and culture of origin play absolutely no role in hiring or retention decisions in the modern American workplace.

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Why teachers leave the profession: retention and motivation in Canadian secondary schools

Teaching is one of the professions that many and indeed probably even most people enter with a large measure of idealism.

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How the peace of Westphalia challenges modern state sovereignty

The fundamental principle of the peace of Westphalia aimed to enshrine in law the idea that politics were essentially territorial but our modern world continues to alter this paradigm. Consider the end of the cold war; Europe and the United States had to search for all new antagonists.

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Religious discrimination in the American workplace and constitution

Any form of discrimination is anathema and not acceptable in our modern democratic society. Discrimination by its very nature means denying others their human rights and unfairly privileging only a few.

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Private military contractors' role in U.S. military operations and Iraq

Private Military Contractors (PMCs) are a necessary but imperfect tool in today's rapidly changing and increasingly unstable world, utilized by the United State military, rife with ethical and other complications. Today's world is burgeoning with modern, powerful democratic states.

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SEC hedge fund regulation after the Long-Term Capital Management failure

The purpose of this document is to examine hedge fund regulation shift specifically as related to SEC regulations from systemic fraud fears begun in 1998 by the Failure of Long-Term Capital Management.

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Gender differences in susceptibility to male-dominated group conformity pressure

Even before the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials a decade and a half after the end of World War II, psychologists began studying the concept of moral responsibility in relation to obedience to help shed understanding into the Nazi atrocities committed during the war years.

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